When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.